Consultation outcome

Child Maintenance: Accelerating Enforcement

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 2 October 2023
• Last updated: 12 February 2024 — See all updates

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

This consultation has concluded

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Child Maintenance: Accelerating Enforcement: Government response to the consultation

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Cynhaliaeth Plant: Cyflymu Gorfodaeth: Ymateb y llywodraeth i’r ymgynghoriad

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Detail of outcome

The government published its response to this consultation on 12 February 2024.

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Original consultation

Summary

This consultation seeks views on proposed legislative changes that affect enforcement of child maintenance arrears.

This consultation ran from
9:30am on 2 October 2023 to 11:45pm on 24 November 2023

Consultation description

The aim of this consultation is to inform the government’s proposed regulations to support the introduction of administrative liability orders.

This document includes:

• information on the Child Support (Enforcement) Act 2023 and rationale for the introduction of administrative liability orders
• a set of policy consultation questions on proposed regulations relating to administrative liability orders and in particular, the procedure for dealing with the appeals process

This consultation is open to voluntary and community sector organisations, as well as Child Maintenance Service customers and members of the general public.

This consultation applies to England, Wales and Scotland, although we welcome comments from across the United Kingdom.

Documents

Child Maintenance: Accelerating Enforcement

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Child Maintenance: Accelerating Enforcement

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Cynhaliaeth Plant: Cyflymu Gorfodaeth

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Published 2 October 2023
Last updated 12 February 2024 + show all updates

1. 12 February 2024

   Added the government's response to the consultation.

2. 2 October 2023

   First published.